Arts & Entertainment
The Great Escape: Adult-Sized Entertainment
This week's Great Escape reminds you to take advantage of Marin's bountiful arts and culture scene with three interesting, unique upcoming events.
Welcome back to The Great Escape, where each week we tell you about one great idea (or maybe three) that will make your life a little easier, a little more fun - and hopefully a bit of both.
For this week’s Great Escape, here’s a reminder that contrary to popular belief, Marin doesn't actually go dark at 8 p.m. Treat yourself to a night of grown-up entertainment by tapping into the county’s diverse cultural offerings with a trio of unusual events aimed squarely at adults.
1. Among all the far-fetched scenarios of international intrigue, covert operations, and behind-the-scenes political double dealing to hit the news since 9/11, none is more improbable than the story of Valerie Plame Wilson, the ex-CIA undercover agent whose identity was compromised in spectacular fashion during the fallout from the US invasion of Iraq. Plame Wilson, whose book, Fair Game, was turned into a movie of the same name, is appearing tomorrow night at the Marin Center, the only speaker appearance to survive the cancellation of the , brainchild of Mill Valley’s Gary Ferroni.
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The 411: I'm Speaking: Valerie Plame-Wilson, Thursday, March 3 at 8 p.m. at the Marin Center, San Rafael. Click here for more information.
2. Also tomorrow night, the Lark Theater presents an evening of silent film with live gypsy jazz music courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and The Hot Club of San Francisco, a local gypsy swing band. Live music set to three short films – There it Is, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Land Beyond the Sunset, will take audiences back to 1920s Paris, when gypsy music filled smoky bars and silent films ruled the screen.
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The 411: Hot Club San Francisco in Silent Surrealism. Thursday, March 3 at 8pm. Lark Theater in Larkspur. Click here for more information.
3. Back in Mill Valley, Saturday night brings Frank Olivier’s Comedy Thrill Show, a night of twisted cabaret, magic, juggling, unicycling and more. You may have seen Olivier on The Tonight Show or HBO, but this weekend he’s live at 142 Throckmorton for an unusual night of fun. Also appearing will be puppeteer Bob Hartman, and Bronkar Lee, world-class beat-boxer/juggler.
The 411: Frank Olivier’s Comedy Thrill Show. Saturday March 5 at 8pm. , Mill Valley. Click here for more information.
